Job DeployManagementGroupsJob: Environment main could not be found

[autocloudarc]

When running the management-groups-ci, this error appears (see image). Following instructions from reference: [CanadaPubSecALZ/azure-devops-pipelines.md at main · Azure/CanadaPubSecALZ · GitHub] https://github.com/Azure/CanadaPubSecALZ/blob/main/docs/onboarding/azure-devops-pipelines.md) Step 3.3: Configure Azure DevOps Pipeline.

[autocloudarc]

Discovered a functional workaround as follows:

1. Manually created a new environment named: dev
2. in the ...\config\variables\common.yml file, added the following entry at the top of the variables list (line 12): environment: dev
3. In the .../pipelines/management-groups.yml file, configured the jobs: environment property to reference the new common variable created in 2. above: environment: ${{ variables['environment'] }}

NOTE: I'm not sure if this is the best approach that is acceptable, but I am now able to run the pipeline job without issues and the management group structure was properly created this time :

[SenthuranSivananthan]

Thanks for raising this @autocloudarc. This is because you will have to define an environment in Azure DevOps under Pipelines -> Environments. This name should match that of the branch.

In the past, this was auto created by ADO when missing and looks like it is no longer. Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/environments?view=azure-devops

I'll get the doc updated to reference the environment setting.

[SenthuranSivananthan]

@autocloudarc - Feel free to checkout the PR with the instructions: https://github.com/Azure/CanadaPubSecALZ/pull/175/files

[skeeler]

Reopening to associate an additional code change to the onboarding scripts so that the create-pipelines.bat script automatically detects when the environment (named after the branch) does not already exist and automatically creates it.